See when AI crawlers
visit your website
Track GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended in real-time. Know which pages AI platforms are indexing - and which ones they're missing.
AI platforms can only surface content they have crawled. If their bots never visit a page, that page does not exist to ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini. Surva.ai gives you the first clear view into exactly which AI crawlers are visiting, how often, and which content they are actually reading - so you can act on the gaps before your competitors do.
ClaudeBot
Google-Extended
Crawler Activity
Last 7 days
ClaudeBot
Google-Extended
Top Crawled Pages
Why Track AI Crawlers?
AI platforms can only cite content they have crawled. If their bots are not visiting your pages, you are invisible to AI search - no matter how good your content is.
The challenge is that AI crawlers do not execute JavaScript, which means standard analytics tools like Google Analytics or Hotjar cannot detect them at all. The only reliable way to see AI bot traffic is through server-side tracking - either by analysing your web server logs or by intercepting requests at the edge with a Cloudflare Worker. Surva.ai handles both approaches and turns raw log data into a clear, actionable dashboard.
The AI indexing blind spot
Most website owners have no idea which AI platforms crawl their content - or how often. You might be accidentally blocking GPTBot in your robots.txt, your server might return errors when ClaudeBot visits, or your most important product pages might never appear in crawler logs at all. Standard web analytics tools are blind to all of this because AI bots skip JavaScript entirely.
The result is a gap between the content you publish and the content AI platforms actually know about. That gap directly determines whether you show up in AI-generated answers. A page crawled frequently is a page with a real chance of being cited. A page never crawled is functionally invisible.
Surva.ai closes this blind spot. By processing your server logs or monitoring requests at the Cloudflare edge, it identifies every AI bot visit by platform, records the exact page and timestamp, and surfaces patterns over time - so you know exactly where you stand.
Everything you need to understand AI crawler behavior
Server-side detection. Complete crawler coverage. Privacy-first design.
The Surva.ai crawler analytics dashboard gives you a 30-day trend chart broken down by platform, a "most crawled pages" table showing visit counts per bot, a real-time recent activity feed, and a crawler errors report that flags 404s, blocked requests, and timeouts. Everything updates automatically as logs are processed - no manual querying required.
Real-Time Crawler Dashboard
See every AI crawler visit as it happens. Track crawl frequency, page coverage, and trends over time.
Page-Level Analytics
See which pages each AI crawler visits most. Identify content that's being indexed vs. ignored.
Crawl Frequency Trends
Track how often each AI platform crawls your site. Spot changes in crawler behavior.
Privacy-First Design
No cookies. No localStorage. No fingerprinting. GDPR compliant out of the box - no consent banner needed.
Easy Log Import
Upload your Nginx or Apache logs. We automatically parse and extract all AI crawler visits.
Crawler Breakdown
See which AI platforms crawl you most. Compare GPTBot vs ClaudeBot vs PerplexityBot activity.
How AI Crawler Tracking Works
AI crawlers do not execute JavaScript - they only fetch raw HTML. That means tools like Google Tag Manager or any client-side analytics script are completely blind to them. Reliable detection requires working at the server layer.
Surva.ai offers two server-side methods for Growth and Business plans: upload your Nginx or Apache access logs for batch processing, or deploy a lightweight Cloudflare Worker that intercepts every incoming request at the edge and identifies AI bots in real time. For all plans, the JavaScript referral tracking snippet captures human visitors who arrive at your site by clicking a link from an AI answer - giving you both sides of the picture.
Server Log Import
Upload your Nginx or Apache access logs. We parse them and extract all AI crawler visits automatically.
Growth & BusinessCloudflare Worker
Deploy our edge Worker to detect AI crawlers in real-time. No log imports needed - data flows automatically.
Growth & BusinessAI Referral Tracking
Our JavaScript script tracks human visitors who click AI citations - available on all plans.
All PlansAI Crawlers We Track
We detect and track all major AI platform crawlers. New bots are added automatically as they emerge.
OpenAI
- GPTBot
- ChatGPT-User
- OAI-SearchBot
Anthropic
- ClaudeBot
- Claude-Web
- Anthropic-ai
- Google-Extended
- Googlebot (AI)
- GoogleOther
Others
- PerplexityBot
- Cohere-ai
- Meta-ExternalAgent
Frequently Asked Questions
What AI crawlers does Surva.ai track?
Surva.ai tracks all major AI crawlers including GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, and OAI-SearchBot (OpenAI), ClaudeBot and Claude-Web (Anthropic), PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and GoogleOther (Google AI), Cohere-ai, Meta-ExternalAgent (Meta AI), and more. Bots are identified through a database of user-agent patterns that uses exact matching, substring matching, and regex - and the pattern cache is refreshed hourly so newly detected crawlers are picked up without any manual configuration. As new AI platforms launch and deploy their own crawlers, Surva.ai adds support automatically.
How does AI crawler tracking work?
Because AI crawlers do not run JavaScript, standard analytics tools like Google Analytics or Tag Manager simply cannot see them. Surva.ai uses server-side detection instead. You can upload your Nginx or Apache access logs (up to 50 MB, including .gz compressed files) and Surva.ai parses them to extract every AI bot request. Alternatively, on Growth and Business plans, you can deploy a Cloudflare Worker that intercepts requests at the edge and streams crawler data into your Surva.ai dashboard automatically. Both methods identify the crawler by name, record the exact URL visited, the HTTP status code, and the precise timestamp.
Is AI crawler tracking GDPR compliant?
Yes. Crawler analytics tracking is privacy-first by design. Bot detection is done entirely server-side by inspecting user-agent strings in your own server logs - no cookies are set, no localStorage is touched, and no personal data about human visitors is collected at any point. The AI referral tracking script (which does observe human visitors) also avoids cookies and localStorage, using an anonymous server-side fingerprint instead. Because no personal data is processed, no GDPR consent banner is required. This makes Surva.ai compatible with strict privacy policies and easy to deploy alongside HIPAA or ePrivacy obligations.
Why should I track AI crawlers?
Crawler visits are the precondition for AI visibility. A page that GPTBot or ClaudeBot has never fetched cannot appear in ChatGPT or Claude answers, regardless of its search ranking or content quality. By tracking crawler visits at the page level, you can confirm your most important pages are actually being indexed, find pages that crawlers ignore or return errors for, spot robots.txt misconfigurations before they damage your AI presence, and measure whether publishing new content triggers fresh crawl activity. Over time, crawl frequency trends also reveal which AI platforms are investing most heavily in indexing your content category - a useful proxy for where AI-driven traffic will come from.
Will this slow down my website?
No. Server log import is an entirely offline batch process - you upload a log file and Surva.ai processes it asynchronously. Your live website is not touched at all. The Cloudflare Worker runs at Cloudflare's edge network, inspecting the User-Agent header before the request ever reaches your origin server. The overhead is negligible and does not affect your page load time or Core Web Vitals scores. The JavaScript referral tracking snippet loads asynchronously and only fires for human visitors, not for the AI bots themselves.
What's the difference between crawler tracking and referral tracking?
These are two distinct signals that together give you the full picture. Crawler tracking detects when AI bots (like GPTBot or ClaudeBot) fetch your pages to build their knowledge base - this happens invisibly, requires server-side detection, and is available on Growth and Business plans. Referral tracking detects when a real human user sees your link in a ChatGPT or Perplexity answer and clicks through to your site - this uses a lightweight JavaScript snippet and is available on all plans. Crawler visits tell you about indexing coverage and potential visibility. Referral visits tell you about the actual traffic and conversion impact you are getting from AI citations today. Used together, they answer both "can AI platforms find my content?" and "is that visibility driving real business results?"
Part of the Surva.ai platform
AI Crawler Analytics is one feature inside Surva.ai. Pair it with these to get the full picture of your AI visibility.
AI Referral Tracking
After the bot crawls, does it send real visitors? Track traffic from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and more.
AI Citation Tracking
See exactly when AI platforms mention your brand by name - and what they say.
AI SEO Audit
Crawl your own site and score each page for AI citation-readiness. Fix what AI bots can't process.